Over 600 social media accounts of the central government were hacke💞d in the last five years, Information and Broadcasting Minis❀ter Anurag Thakur told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
Res﷽ponding to a query on the hacking of government's Twitter handles and e-mail accounts, the minister said since 2017, 641 such accounts have been hacked.
Altogether 175 accounts wꦰere hacked in🧸 2017, 114 in 2018, 61 in 2019, 77 in 2020, 186 in 2021 and 28 so far this year, he said in a written reply.
Thakur said the information was made available by Indian Comp🔯uter Emꦗergency Response Team (CERT-In) to the Ministry of Electronics And Information Technology (MeitY).
💮Responding to the query on steps𒊎 being taken by the government to prevent such intrusions in future, the minister said in order to enhance cyber security, CERT-In was set up. It issues alerts and advisories about latest cyber threats and countermeasures on a regular basis to ensure safe use of digital technologies.
"CERT-In has issued 68 advisories for organizations and users for data security an🙈d mitigating fraudulent 🐲activities.
"On observing compromise of websites/ e-mail/ Twitter accounts, CERT-In notifies the affected entities along with remedial actions to be taken. CERT-In coordinates incident response measures with affected entities, service providers, sectoral Computer Securit🤡y Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) as well as Law Enforcement Agencies," the ministe𒉰r said.
CERT-In is operating an automated cyber threat exchange platform for proac⛎tively collecting, analysing and sharing tailored alerts with organisations across sectors for proactive threat mitigation actions by them.
He said security tips have been published for꧒ users to secure their desktop, mobile/smart phones and preventing phishing attacks.🌊
"CERT-In has set up the National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) to generate ne🧸cessary situational awareness of existing and potential cyber security threats. Phase-I of NCCC is operational," the minister said.
